Survey of National Health Service (NHS) orthodontic practitioners in Wales, UK. Part 1: working patterns 2021-2022.

Objective: To ascertain the working patterns of the NHS orthodontic workforce in Wales and any possible future changes.

Design: Descriptive cross-sectional survey.

Participants: NHS orthodontic practitioners in Wales.

Survey of National Health Service (NHS) orthodontic practitioners in Wales, UK. Part 2: job satisfaction perceptions of the workforce 2021-2022.

Objective: To ascertain the perceptions of the Welsh NHS orthodontic workforce regarding their job satisfaction and work life balance.

Design: Descriptive cross-sectional survey.

Participants And Setting: Clinicians providing NHS orthodontic treatment in Wales.

Orthodontic extrusion: an interdisciplinary approach to patient management.

Unlabelled: Root fractures that occur at the cervical margin do not always heal predictably, even following a period of splinting. This often leaves margins either sub-gingival or sub-crestal. This provides an unsatisfactory situation for restoring the remaining root as restorations will impinge on the biological width.